Re: is the ls-lisp package switched on or off?

["leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com>]

thanks a lot for your detailed reply!

cheers, leo

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote in message
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> > From: "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:01:36 +1100
> >
> > how can i (inside emacs) find out wether the ls-lisp package is in use
or
> > not?
>
> Every ELisp package has a line near its end saying this:
>
>   (provide 'package-name)
>
> This is so you could make a test of whether the package has been
> loaded into Emacs, like this:
>
>   (featurep 'package-name)
>
> This expression returns t if the package was loaded, nil otherwise.
>
> So in your case,
>
>   (featurep 'ls-lisp)
>
> will supply the answer.
>
> > i just found out  the hard way, hid the excuteable and dired was still
able
> > to produce a directory.
> >
> > so i guess it uses ls-lisp (or did it uses ls-lisp only beacuse it
couln't
> > find the ls command?)
>
> I'm guessing that you are running on Windows.  Emacs on Windows uses
> ls-lisp by default, since most Windows machines don't have an external
> `ls' command.
>
> > but is there a switch or so in emacs?
>
> If you want to turn off the Lisp emulation of `ls', customize the
> value of the variable `ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program': if set
> to non-nil, it will cause Emacs to use the external `ls'.  (However, I
> don't recommend to do that if your `ls' is a Cygwin program, since
> Cygwin programs have compatibility issues with Emacs.)
>
>
>